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Nowinski (Ira) Photographs of the Stanford Powwow
PC0143
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Ira Nowinski photographs of the Stanford Powwow
creator:
Nowinski, Ira
Identifier/Call Number: PC0143
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
Physical Description:
4915.2 megabyte(s)
Date (inclusive): 2006
Abstract: Digitial images and select prints of
the Stanford Powwow taken by Ira Nowinski.
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in
original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Ira Nowinski is an American photographer of Polish and Hungarian Jewish descent. Born ca.
1942 and raised in New York, he was the first person in his family born in the United
States. At the age of 42, he was prodded by opera singer Regina Resnick to do a photo essay
around the Jewish milieu. He had previously done photo essays of the North Beach, San
Francisco, area, of the evacuation of elderly citizens from hotels in the South of Market
area of San Francisco, and of the Southeast Asian Community in the same city. In addition,
he had been the staff photographer of the San Francisco Opera since 1978.
The Stanford Powwow is held every Mother’s Day Weekend in the Eucalyptus Grove on Stanford
campus.
The materials consist of digitial images and select prints of the Stanford Powwow taken by
Ira Nowinski.
Ira Nowinski Photographs of the Stanford Powwow (PC0143). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Copyright has been transferred to Stanford University for materials authored or otherwise
produced by the creator of this collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photography, Artistic.
Photoprints.
Native Americans -- Photographs
Nowinski, Ira